Wordplay is a literary technique that has been used for a long time in various different ways. It's defined as a witty or clever verbal exchange, or a play on words. There are many different types of wordplay with each adding a more appealing sense to its audience. Wordplay can also be used to target and attract specific ages and audiences.Examples of wordplay are diction, alliteration, assonance, puns, lexicon, personification, as well as many others. Wordplay can have many different effects on a piece of literature. It can make literature humorous, interesting and more unique, make people use their imagination, and can even be used to make fun of something.
Authors use wordplay to enhance their writings. Some writers, like Lewis Carroll, use wordplay to make their writings funny and interesting. In Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, wordplay is constantly used. Carroll uses wordplay in this book in such a way that it seems to makes no sense at all. But this makes you want to keep reading in hopes of some kind of understanding. In chapter seven of the book, when Alice visits the March Hare and the Hatter for a tea party, the Hatter sang a song. This song was an example of a parody of the song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." I believe Carroll put this in the book to make it funny. Another author that uses wordplay to make writing funny is Dr. Seuss. Some of Dr. Seuss's book titles are examples of alliterations (repetition of the same consonant sound) and assonances (repetition of the same vowel sound) and also repetition. For example, Yertle the Turtle, Hop on Pop, Horton Hears a Who, and Cat in the Hat. These books appeal to children of young ages, and the use of wordplay makes it fun for children to read these books.Finally, another example of an author’s use of wordplay is in the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson.In this poem the author uses personification.She gives death a name of “he” which helps to explain the poem in a more natural way.
So you can see that an author’s creative use of wordplay can entirely change a piece of literature as well as give it life and different meanings, depending on who is reading it. Wordplay is everywhere and has never ending examples. Different authors have different styles and ways of using wordplay to make their writing more interesting and funny. The various examples of wordplay give the reader a unique form of enjoyment. Whether it is wordplay in children or adult books, wordplay like puns, alliterations, repetition and others, they certainly twist the English language and appeal to the reader.
Wordplay is a literary technique that has been used for a long time in various different ways. It's defined as a witty or clever verbal exchange, or a play on words. There are many different types of wordplay with each adding a more appealing sense to its audience. Wordplay can also be used to target and attract specific ages and audiences. Examples of wordplay are diction, alliteration, assonance, puns, lexicon, personification, as well as many others. Wordplay can have many different effects on a piece of literature. It can make literature humorous, interesting and more unique, make people use their imagination, and can even be used to make fun of something.
Authors use wordplay to enhance their writings. Some writers, like Lewis Carroll, use wordplay to make their writings funny and interesting. In Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, wordplay is constantly used. Carroll uses wordplay in this book in such a way that it seems to makes no sense at all. But this makes you want to keep reading in hopes of some kind of understanding. In chapter seven of the book, when Alice visits the March Hare and the Hatter for a tea party, the Hatter sang a song. This song was an example of a parody of the song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." I believe Carroll put this in the book to make it funny. Another author that uses wordplay to make writing funny is Dr. Seuss. Some of Dr. Seuss's book titles are examples of alliterations (repetition of the same consonant sound) and assonances (repetition of the same vowel sound) and also repetition. For example, Yertle the Turtle, Hop on Pop, Horton Hears a Who, and Cat in the Hat. These books appeal to children of young ages, and the use of wordplay makes it fun for children to read these books. Finally, another example of an author’s use of wordplay is in the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. In this poem the author uses personification. She gives death a name of “he” which helps to explain the poem in a more natural way.
So you can see that an author’s creative use of wordplay can entirely change a piece of literature as well as give it life and different meanings, depending on who is reading it. Wordplay is everywhere and has never ending examples. Different authors have different styles and ways of using wordplay to make their writing more interesting and funny. The various examples of wordplay give the reader a unique form of enjoyment. Whether it is wordplay in children or adult books, wordplay like puns, alliterations, repetition and others, they certainly twist the English language and appeal to the reader.